peso
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
- (PH) IPA(key): /ˈpɛsoʊ/, [ˈpɛso]
Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -eɪsəʊ, (PH) -ɛsoʊ
Noun edit
peso (plural pesos)
- (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
- The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
Synonyms edit
- adarme (former Spanish coin), Spanish dollar
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Catalan edit
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peso
Czech edit
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peso n
- peso (any of multiple currencies)
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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
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peso
- (mexican) peso
Esperanto edit
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Audio: (file)
Noun edit
peso (accusative singular peson, plural pesoj, accusative plural pesojn)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
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peso
- peso (currency; coin or note of one peso)
Declension edit
Inflection of peso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | peso | pesot | ||
genitive | peson | pesojen | ||
partitive | pesoa | pesoja | ||
illative | pesoon | pesoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | peso | pesot | ||
accusative | nom. | peso | pesot | |
gen. | peson | |||
genitive | peson | pesojen | ||
partitive | pesoa | pesoja | ||
inessive | pesossa | pesoissa | ||
elative | pesosta | pesoista | ||
illative | pesoon | pesoihin | ||
adessive | pesolla | pesoilla | ||
ablative | pesolta | pesoilta | ||
allative | pesolle | pesoille | ||
essive | pesona | pesoina | ||
translative | pesoksi | pesoiksi | ||
abessive | pesotta | pesoitta | ||
instructive | — | pesoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “peso”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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French edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
Further reading edit
- “peso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
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Etymology 2 edit
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peso
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesi)
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Etymology 2 edit
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Adjective edit
peso (feminine pesa, masculine plural pesi, feminine plural pese)
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
peso
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.
Noun edit
peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoene)
- a peso (currency unit of several Latin American countries, as well as the Philippines)
References edit
- “peso” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pensum, via English peso and Spanish peso.
Noun edit
peso m (definite singular pesoen, indefinite plural peso or pesos, definite plural pesoane)
- a peso (currency unit, as above)
References edit
- “peso” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (“I weigh”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
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Descendants edit
- Spanish: peso
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish peso, from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso n (indeclinable)
- peso (designation for specific currency)
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (“to weigh”).
Alternative forms edit
- pêso (superseded)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
- weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)
- heaviness (the condition of being heavy)
- weight (object used for its heaviness)
- (weightlifting) weight (heavy object lifted for strength training)
- (athletics) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)
- (figurative) weight (importance or influence)
- (figurative) emotional pressure
- (sports) weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)
- (mathematics) weight (value that multiplies a variable)
- (typography) weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:peso.
Synonyms edit
- (heaviness): pesadez (less common)
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "heaviness"): leveza
Derived terms edit
- a peso de ouro
- de peso
- dois pesos e duas medidas
- em peso
- pesão (augmentative)
- pesinho (diminutive)
- peso aderente
- peso atómico
- peso bruto
- peso específico
- peso leve
- peso líquido
- peso médio
- peso meio-médio
- peso meio-pesado
- peso molecular
- peso morto
- peso pesado
- pesozinho (diminutive)
- prematuro de peso
- valer o seu peso em ouro
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Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧so
Verb edit
peso
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
- peso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
peso m (plural peso)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Spanish peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of the semi-learned pienso.
Noun edit
peso m (plural pesos)
- (physics) weight (the force on an object due to gravitational attraction)
- weight (a block of metal used in a balance)
- weight class
- peso (unit of currency)
- weight (importance or influence)
- weight, burden, load, brunt (pressure)
- scales, scale (device used to measure weight)
Hyponyms edit
- peso atómico
- peso bruto
- peso específico
- peso gallo (“bantamweight”)
- peso ligero (“lightweight”)
- peso medio (“middleweight”)
- peso molecular
- peso mosca (“flyweight”)
- peso muerto
- peso neto
- peso neto
- peso pesado
- peso pluma (“featherweight”)
- peso semipesado (“cruiserweight”)
- peso wélter (“welterweight”)
Derived terms edit
- aumentar de peso (“to gain weight”)
- aumento de peso (“weight gain”)
- caer por su propio peso (“to be self-evident, to be obvious”)
- con bajo peso (“underweight”) (adj.)
- de peso
- de su peso
- en peso
- ganar peso
- lanzamiento de peso
- perder peso
- peso del cuerpo
- quitarse un peso de encima (“to take a load off”)
- razón de peso (“compelling reason, strong reason”)
- sin peso (“weightless”)
- todo cae por su propio peso (“what goes around comes around”)
- valer su peso en oro (“to be worth its weight in gold”)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
peso
Further reading edit
- “peso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)
- Alternative form of piso